Action Words Language Objectives

Action Words
Language Objectives
This activity helps to develop both semantic and syntactic skills.
Semantics
To label actions using the Present Participle. E.g. Running, shopping, packing.
Syntax - To utilise correctly:
Present Progressive Tense (i.e. auxiliary verbs ‘is’ and ‘are’ + present participle). E.g.
She is shopping. She is running.
Subjective Pronouns - It, He, She, They.
Future Tense. E.g. She will shop. She is going to run. He will be packing his suitcase.
Past Tense for regular verbs. E.g. She shopped. He packed his suitcase.
Past Tense for irregular verbs. E.g. She ran.
Target Year Groups
Kindy to Year 3.
How to Play
1. The teacher decides what grammatical structure the activity will focus on and chooses the
appropriate set of verb cards, either the regular or the irregular verbs.
2. Spread the chosen set of verb cards face down on the table. Each set contains verb
pictures + a star card.
3. The first player picks up a card and responds to the teacher’s stimulus question (See the
Questions and Answers Table).
4. Play then proceeds to the next player.
5. The game continues in this manner until a player turns up the star card and is the winner.
Designed by K.Mollett, 2012.
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Verbs
REGULAR VERBS
Bake
Bat
Brush (her teeth)
Clean
Crash
Dive
Fish
Garden
Jog
Jump
Laugh
Lick
Lift
Listen
Pack
Paint
Play
Row
Sew
Shop
Slip
Suck
Tow
Walk
Wash (the dishes/car)
Watch (TV)
Whisper
Work (on the computer)
IRREGULAR VERBS
Blow (up a balloon) - blew
Build (a sandcastle) - built
Cut (hair) - cut
Dig (a hole) - dug
Drive (a car) - drove
Do ( a handstand) - did
Drink - drank
Eat (an ice cream/apple, at a restaurant) ate
Fly - flew
Hold (hands) - held
Put (on sunscreen) - put
Read - read
Ride (a horse/bike/motorbike) - rode
Run (in a race) - ran
Shake (hands) - shook
Swim - swam
Take (photos) - took
Throw (a frisbee) - threw
Wear (a pretty dress) - wore
Write - wrote
Questions and Answers
LESSON FOCUS
STIMULUS QUESTIONS
IDEAL RESPONSES
Present Progressive Tense
What is happening?
The girl is brushing her
teeth.
Present Progressive Tense
+ Subjective Pronouns (It,
He, She, They)
What is happening?
She is brushing her teeth.
Future Tense
What will happen?
What is going to happen?
What will be happening?
She will brush her teeth.
She is going to brush her
teeth.
She will be brushing her
teeth.
Past - Regular Verbs
(Perfect Tense)
What has happened?
She has brushed her teeth.
Past - Regular Verbs
(Simple Past Tense)
What happened?
She brushed her teeth.
Past Tense - Irregular
Verbs
(Perfect Tense)
What has happened?
He has swum in a race.
Past Tense - Irregular
Verbs
(Simple PastTense)
What happened?
He swam in a race.
Irregular Verbs - Ideal Responses
It is possible that students will give varied past tense answers, so example answers have
been given. For teaching purposes, it is best to focus on one tense at a time, however one
can acknowledge a student’s correct response but also expose the group to the other
desired response.
Verb
Tense
Present
Progressive
Blow
Build
Cut
Future
He is blowing up a
balloon.
He will blow up a
balloon.
They are building a
sandcastle.
They are going to
build a sandcastle.
She is cutting her
hair.
She will be cutting
her hair.
Past
He has blown up a balloon.
He blew up a balloon.
They have built a sandcastle.
They built a sandcastle.
She has cut her hair.
Regular Verbs
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